The head of army intelligence for the Israel Defense Forces has mentioned he bears “full responsibility for the [intelligence] failure” that allowed Hamas’ marvel assault on Oct. 7.
“In all my visits to Military Intelligence Directorate units in the last 11 days, I sat down and stressed that the beginning of the war was an intelligence failure,” Maj. Gen Aharon Haliva mentioned in a contemporary letter, the Times of Israel reported.
“The Military Intelligence Directorate, under my command, failed to warn of the terror attack carried out by Hamas…we failed in our most important mission, and as the head of the Military Intelligence Directorate, I bear full responsibility for the failure,” he endured.
“What needs to be investigated, we will investigate, in the deepest and most comprehensive way, and draw the conclusions. But now, there is only one task, to fight back and to win.”